David Hockney is a British painter known for his California paintings and his 'Secret Knowledge' thesis about optics in Old Master painting.
Hockney's 'Secret Knowledge' argued that Old Masters used optical projections to achieve photographic-quality realism — connecting the history of visual representation to cinema's optical genealogy.
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